Re: Remote rebooting

Sawada999 wrote:
Mike Jones wrote:
Sawada999 wrote:
I have an unmanned remote machine(Windows 2000 Pro) running an application I’ve written. I also have an CuteFTP Pro and VNC running.

I need a way to remotely reboot this machine.

Occasionally I manage to cause the application to hang and the only way to recover is a reboot. When this situation arises I am unable to communicate with my app and unable to log in with VNC. However I can always get in with ftp.

I configured task scheduler to run a bat file every 10 minutes. The bat file looks for a trigger file and if present deletes the file and runs winboot.exe. Works fine in testing. I upload the trigger file and the system reboots.

However now I have the system hung and my method isn’t working. I can upload the trigger file but the system doesn’t reboot.

Seems as though the must be a way to force Windows to run the task winboot.exe or otherwise cause it to reboot.

Can anyone offer a solution?

Thanks,


shutdown -r -f -m \\remotepc

Thanks for the reply.

The computer is not on my local network. I looked at the Microsoft site but am not understanding what I'd use for computername. I have the IP address.

Could you give me some more info?

Thanks,

Try the raw IP for the PC.
another possibility is rcmd, but again requires a servername.

can you telnet into it?

btw, I expect the experts to turn up shortly. I'm going offline now.
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